This text is oriented toward human organizations since this… - C. West Churchman

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This text is oriented toward human organizations since this has been the emphasis in the practice of O.R. in business and industry.

C. West Churchman

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Charles West Churchman (29 August 1913 – 21 March 2004) was an American philosopher and systems scientist, known for his pioneering work in operations research, system analysis and ethics.

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We are always obliged to think about the larger system. If we fail to do this, then our thinking becomes fallacious.

If the chance of error alone were the sole basis for evaluating methods of inference, we would never reach a decision, but would merely keep increasing the sample size indefinitely.

Operations research '(OR) is the securing of improvement in social systems by means of scientific method

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